Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 596742 - Six employees injured when scaffold collapses

Accident Summary Nr: 596742 -- Report ID: 0418100 -- Event Date: 09/13/1990
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
110103967	09/13/1990	1741	0	Chapman Masonry

Abstract: At 8:35 a.m. on September 13, 1990, Employees #1 through #6 were working on tubular welded frame scaffolding at a single-family house under construction. The employees were laying brick. The scaffolding was approximately 20 feet high. It had rained heavily the night before. The scaffold tipped over, injuring all six employees. The company had no safety program (1926.20(b)(1)), no training (1926.21(b)(2)), no hard hats (1926.100(a)), no competent person (1926.451(a)(3)), an inadequate work platform (1926.451(a)(10)), unacceptable planking end extension (1926.451(a)(14)), not plumb (1926.451(a)(15)), inadequate cross bracing (1926.451(d)(3)), inadequate footing (1926.451(d)(4)), and no guardrails (1926.451(d)(10)).

Keywords: HARD HAT, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, SCAFFOLD COLLAPSE, UNTRAINED, WORK PLATFORM, UNGUARDED, OVERTURN

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	110103967	Non Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Occupation not reported
2	110103967	Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported
3	110103967	Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Occupation not reported
4	110103967	Non Hospitalized injury	Cut/Laceration	Occupation not reported
5	110103967	Non Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported
6	110103967	Non Hospitalized injury	Bruise/Contus/Abras	Occupation not reported

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